• Log inStart now

Query and alert on usage data

To help you understand your New Relic usage and billing, we provide a usage UI for understanding your billing-related usage and a UI for managing billing-related data. Additionally, you can:

Data ingest usage queries

The usage UI displays your data ingest over time. If you need more detail than the UI provides, you can use NRQL queries like these:

Data ingest and query limits

For information about data ingest limits and query limits, see Query system limits.

Synthetics usage

There are a certain number of synthetics checks included for free with each edition. For details on that, see Synthetics limits.

The NrDailyUsage event is the event type that can best help you understand synthetics usage. It's generated once per day. Usage timestamps correspond to the time that New Relic receives and processes a synthetic check. This may introduce a slight difference in usage data compared to the time the synthetic check was executed.

By using FACET, you can break your consumption into multiple categories, including account, location, monitor type, and monitor name. If you have a parent account structure, ensure you run queries in a parent account to see the aggregated usage for that parent and its child accounts.

Both successful and failed checks contribute to overall synthetics consumption. Below are sample queries to view and facet your synthetics consumption:

User count queries

For a display of your user count, see the usage UI. If you need more detail than that, you can use the example NRQL queries below. For details about how users are calculated, see User calculations.

Most New Relic organization have the ability to add core users. This section includes queries that will work for those organizations. If you're in an older organization that hasn't opted in to unlock core users, see Queries for organizations without core users.

Here are some rules for querying your users:

  • Use only the NrMTDConsumption event.
  • The attributes used to query by user type are: BasicUsersBillable, CoreUsersBillable, and FullPlatformUsersBillable.

Here are some example NRQL queries for determining user count:

Month-to-date full platform users

This query shows the billable full platform users for the month. In other words, it shows how much you'd be billed for your full platform users for that month if you were billed right now.

FROM NrMTDConsumption SELECT latest(FullPlatformUsersBillable)

Month-to-date core users

This query shows the number of core users you'd be billed for if you were billed right now:

FROM NrMTDConsumption SELECT latest(CoreUsersBillable)

Estimated cost

Here's a query for getting the current month's cost for your full platform users. Note that you'll have to know your organization's full platform user cost.

FROM NrMTDConsumption SELECT latest(FullPlatformUsersBillable) * YOUR_PER_FULL_PLATFORM_USER_COST

User queries for organizations without core users

These queries apply for some older New Relic organizations that have only two user types available: basic users and full platform users.

Cost-related queries

Here are some query recommendations for helping you understand the estimated cost for the current month.

Set usage alerts

To help manage your billing, you can set alerts to notify you of unexpected increases in data ingest or user count.

Before building usage-related alert conditions, here are some tips:

Here are some NRQL alert condition examples.

For setting up alerts related to data ingest limits and query limits, see Set alerts for hitting data limits.

Query changes to your account

To see changes made to your account (for example, changes related to managing users), you can query NrAuditEvent.

Usage-related data types

Tip

For an advanced deep dive into managing data ingest in a complex organization, see Data ingest governance.

Usage data is attached to the following events. For more detail on which event to use for querying users, see Query users.

  • NrUsage records usage every hour and is used to see the types of data being reported (for example, data or browser monitoring data).
  • NrConsumption records usage every hour, and is the equivalent of "real-time" usage. Use this event to observe usage trends over time.
  • NrMTDConsumption generates aggregate values from the NrConsumption event. Use this event to see usage by monthly billing period. For organizations on the core users release, this is the best event for querying user count.

Data ingest attributes

Below are some of the most important attributes attached to usage events.

Attribute

Description

productLine

The category of usage. There are three options: DataPlatform, FullStackObservability, and ProactiveDetection. (Starting November 1, 2021, IncidentIntelligence is no longer a billing factor.) For more details about these categories, see New Relic platform.

metric

This consolidates multiple categories of usage into a single metric. Helpful when faceting by productLine. It's an enum with possible values of BasicUsers, FullPlatformUsers, and GigabytesIngested. Values for the core user release include FullPlatformUsers and CoreUsers.

consumingAccountId

ID of the New Relic account directly responsible for the stored events, as determined from the used.

Copyright © 2023 New Relic Inc.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.